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What’s your chess type?

Chess Goat shows chess.com players why they lose. Type any username for a free Goat Card: your habits, your rivals and one rule to stop losing rating, read from your clocks and results. Then open any of your games for a free Stockfish review, with no daily limit.

Want to know why you lose? Get the Goat Report, $5 → One payment: Stockfish checks up to 2,000 of your games. Then fix the leaks with 30 short lessons in Goat Pass, the first 3 free.

See whose cards are out

Cards from public chess.com games. Tap one to see it live, then check your own.

Photos: Hikaru by ChessKelly, CC BY 4.0 · Magnus Carlsen by Stefan64, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped). Others from chess.com.

Where are you stuck?

Pick your chess.com rating. Each of these 4 free guides is a short coach’s note on the one habit that holds that level back.

  1. Under 1000Stuck at 1000Stop hanging pieces. Almost nothing else matters yet.Read the guide →
  2. 1000–1200Stop blunderingYou still drop pieces sometimes. The “Is it safe?” habit fixes it.Read the guide →
  3. 1200–15001200 to 1500Start asking what your opponent wants, every move.Read the guide →
  4. 1500+Rating not going upStuck here? Separate real skill changes from rating noise.Read the guide →

Also:TiltTime managementWin won gamesAdult improverAll guides

What’s free, and what does the Goat Report add?

  1. Free

    The Goat Card: when you lose

    The Goat Card reads your chess.com clocks and results in seconds: tilt, time trouble, your best hours, your rivals, and one stop-loss rule.

  2. $5

    The Goat Report: why you lose

    The Goat Report runs Stockfish 19 on every move of up to 2,000 games. You get your costliest mistakes ranked, puzzles from your own games, and an 8-week plan, emailed in about 1.5 hours.

  3. $5/mo

    Goat Pass: fix it

    30 short lessons in 3 levels (400–1400 rating), then puzzles at your level. The first 3 lessons are free.

Get my Goat Report, $5
From a sample report: “You’re a piece up. Time to castle?” Use the arrows to see what was played and what was best.
“This is impressive
I have a lot of studying to do lol”
Richard Lee (richygreen88), 2200 bullet · 2100 blitz
“The way I view this report is it replacing a chess coach in regards to identifying weaknesses and laying out a course map for addressing them.”
Maks G.

What does a Goat Report look like?

Two real Goat Reports for two real chess.com players. Yours looks the same, built from your games. For a famous example, read the report on GM Hikaru Nakamura, built from his last 2,000 blitz games.

chess.com / Player A

10,837 blitz games · stuck at ~1,000 for five years

You don’t need more chess knowledge. You need to look before you move.

Read this report

chess.com / Player B

1,570 rapid games · 334 → 1,034 in six months

You are getting better. Now stop giving back the games you’ve already won.

Read this report

How does the Goat Report work?

The Goat Report is a one-time $5 Stockfish analysis of your chess.com games. Three steps, about 1.5 hours end to end.

  1. 1

    Pay $5 once

    Enter your email and chess.com username. No account, no password and no subscription.

  2. 2

    Stockfish analyzes your games

    Stockfish checks every move of up to 2,000 of your recent chess.com games and ranks the mistakes you repeat.

  3. 3

    Get your Goat Report by email

    A private link, in about 1.5 hours. Works on phone and computer.

Chess Goat in numbers

Each figure comes from the product itself or from our own published data.

2,000
games per Goat Report. Stockfish checks every move of each one.
1.5 h
from payment to your Goat Report by email, for a one-time $5.
356,372
blitz moves by 4 famous players, analysed for our time-pressure study.
30
lessons in 3 levels of the chess course. The first 3 are free.

Chess Goat also works inside AI assistants, through a free MCP server and a ChatGPT app: Chess Goat for AI agents.

Questions about Chess Goat

Is Chess Goat free?

The Goat Card and the Stockfish game review are free, with no account. The Goat Report costs $5 once. Goat Pass costs $5 a month or $39 a year, and the first 3 lessons are free.

How many games do I need?

At least 100 blitz or rapid games on chess.com. More games give clearer results.

Do you need my chess.com password?

No. Chess Goat reads your public games from chess.com. You only type your username.

Does it work with Lichess?

The Goat Card and the Goat Report need a chess.com account. The free game review takes any PGN, including Lichess and over-the-board games.

How is the Goat Report different from chess.com’s Game Review?

Game Review looks at one game. The Goat Report looks at up to 2,000 games and finds the mistakes you keep repeating.

What if something goes wrong?

Email hello@trychessgoat.com and we’ll fix it or refund you.

Get your Goat Report for $5.

Get my Goat Report, $5